[referring to the blacklisting that came about as a result of the HUAC hearings during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era of the 1950s] If you said you were sorry you
were a radical and had seen the errors of your ways, you were let off.
That's like saying you have no right to make political experiments in
your mind. That's the kind of thing they do in Communist countries, but
we're supposed to be a free country. We need to be a genuinely free
country and not merely pretend to be one.
[referring to director
Elia Kazan, who "named names" at the HUAC hearings during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era] He's a creep. I wouldn't say hello to him if he came across the street.